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look-out en · NOUN

Etymology

Deverbal from look out.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of lookout.
   alt of lookout
   • Very well—very good indeed. We may get to the coast; but to cross the wide sea, we know not whither, is a dreary look-out. 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 148:
   • The gang was working without a look-out, six of them with their backs to approaching trains. 2021 September 22, Dr Mike Esbester, “Trackside safety: a permanent problem”, in RAIL, number 940, page 78:

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